Platinum Égoïste (1993)
by Chanel

I keep going back and forth about Platinum Egoïste. Some times I think it’s great, other times I don’t feel like having anything to do because it seems rather plastically gaudy. It IS fresh, lively, and unique. It opens with a whole load of aromatics: lavender, rosemary, spearmint, coriander, and sage. Doubling the effectiveness of the aromatics, and giving them a metallic edge, are loads of aldehydes. This accord is quite attention getting—it could be called sharp and boisterous, but it somehow manages to keep a tenuous grasp on Chanel elegance. The fragrance smoothes out with the floral middle notes by losing much of the aromatic sharpness. I find the middle notes rather… I might say “synthetic,” but “abstract” would be a much better word. At any rate it is a very nice accord—bright, energetic, and quasi-elegant. The dry down is a wood / oakmoss / vetiver—dominated by a cedar that continues it in the sharp motif of the top and mid notes, but increases the warmth of the fragrance a bit. Platinum Egoïste has a cedar-smoky background aura to it and the fragrance lasts hours and hours on my skin. I do see a sort of relationship between the original Egoïste and Platinum Egoïste in their structures: they both are extremely tightly constructed with creative, and progressively related movements between instinctively appropriate accords. However, to me, Platinum Egoïste is not worthy enough to be a flanker of Egoïste, but it is masculine, dynamically constructed, arguably elegant, and creatively unique. (Rewrite of 29 August 2006 review. Changed from thumb’s up.)

After Egoiste.. Why!!!?...
If you want my take on it, just read tvlampboy's review. Feel exactly, exactly the same.
Garbage.

High Test Cool Water. The Giorgio For Men of the 90's. "Masterpiece" here equals sillage and longevity. Take a day off (and I mean 24 hrs.) and walk this deal closer (approach to human relationships) around!

Medicinal notes hint at a trip to the ER following an imaginary fistfight in a parking lot. Wood? Because, "Why not?" We're already doing the "fresh thing." And here's a widdle flower...somewhere in the middle.

Only for the most macho of metrosexuals...

Platinum Jerk.

Purchased this one on hype. Not overly impressed. Work scent for sure, almost black licorice? I dunno. Not really complimented at all, and kinda expensive.

Do I think it smells good? 3/5
Compliment from the ladies? 2/5
Overall 3/5

fresh and floral, with a cold metallic tang which i guess gives it masculinity but also renders it somewhat unemotional and uninvolving. feels like being given the cold shoulder.

Very classy, in a league of its own, have just purchased a 50ml bottle of the fragrance.